Originally Posted by
Cough
So it's not OK for someone to be reclined in position where the door will miss their head (because we do it in such a way to be compliant) when the decompression occurs (has to be in the flight deck of course), but if you happen to be standing in front of the door when said event occurs then thats ok - The door I'm sure would do some serious damage to the person standing next to it checking the spy hole...
That's an exposure time thing, surely. Hours per flight with head in the dangerous position vs minutes per flight where someone is standing in the doorway.
Not that different to roads or tracks having signs saying 'no stopping - rockfall danger'.
Making it so that you can't put the seat in a dangerous position is an engineering solution; telling you not to put the seat in a dangerous position is an administrative solution. MCAS and DCA (amongst others) are reminding the FAA that yeah, administrative solutions are less than ideal. It's a bulletin that'll be forgotten in three years.
Why the engineering solution had to be that bad... who knows?